Global Screening Operations Associate

Join our global team to screen clients, vendors, and securities, ensuring compliance with sanctions and regulatory standards!

As a Global Screening Operations Associate within the Global Screening Operations Team, you contribute to the responsible growth of the firm by anticipating new and emerging risks, utilizing your expert judgment to address real-world challenges that affect our company, customers, and communities.

The Global Screening Operations Team in Client Screening Department plays a critical role in the successful execution of the firm's compliance mission. The team is responsible for the daily screening of 200 Million Clients / Entities against Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), International Sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), Negative Media and various internal lists.

Job responsibilities

• Understand and implement of Global Screening standards, guidelines, policies and procedures

• Direct oversight over a team of people including the day to day management

• Coach and mentor of the Core Processing Analysts on a daily basis (Applicable for People Managers)

• Document and escalate of any issues and concerns to the Client List Screening (CLS) Senior Management

• Understand of all the risk and controls partners (Quality Assurance, Quality Testing, Controls and th e Risk and Control Self-Assessments ( RCSA) process) as it pertains to the team.

• Develop excellent relationships with the other Client Screening Locations across regions.

• Gather and coordinate any changes to the firms screening policies / processes with Compliance or LOB Operations and Client List Screening

• Participate or lead other Client Screening or LOB aligned initiatives as necessary

• Understand and learn the existing procedures in place and then help with the training execution to the expanded team once all hires are in place

• Proactively highlight potential issues to management

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Proven experience in the Financial Services industry with a demonstrated track-record of delivery and/or relevant experience in Compliance, KYC and Screening .
• Outstanding client management, partnership building, leadership and direct experience of dealing with multiple stakeholders at one time
• Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively with colleagues and senior management
• Strong relationship building skills to influence/negotiate desired outcome
• Ability to deep-dive and investigate issues to see a successful resolution and broker the solution to applicable key managers
• Experience with the build out and execution of a new team or procedures, ability to identify risks and issues and successfully navigate through to completion
• Strong leader who has experience with managing medium to large teams in an operational environment, able to show direction and guidance on a regular basis
• Proven track record of ongoing coaching, educating and directing a team, ideally has experience with leading a new team where there is limited knowledge in place and needs to be developed over time.
• Possess strong computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Self-reliance and willingness to "own" problems and creatively find solutions
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills